Star England batter Harry Brook turned the sixth batter from his nationwide workforce to attain a triple century within the longest format of the sport. He completed this achievement throughout the fourth day of the primary Take a look at towards Pakistan on Thursday. Brook was despatched again to the pavilion after scoring 317 runs off 322 balls which was laced with 29 boundaries and three maximums in his innings. With this knock, he turned the sixth batter to attain this ft for the Three Lions aspect.
The opposite English batters to attain a triple century had been Leonard Hutton (364 vs Australiain 1938), Wally Hammond (336* vs New Zealand in 1933), Graham Gooch (333 vs India in 1990), Andy Sandham (325 vs West Indies in 1930), and John Endrich (310* vs New Zealand in 1965 ).
With this innings, Brook additionally turned the fifth batter to attain a triple century towards Pakistan after Garry Sobers of West Indies (365* in 1958), David Warner of Australia (335* in 2019), Mark Taylor of Australia (334* in 1998), and Virender Sehwag of India (309 in 2004).
Recapping the match, Pakistan received the toss and elected to bat first. It was centuries from Shan Masood (151 in 177 balls, with 13 fours and two sixes) and Abdullah Shafique (102 in 184 balls, with 12 fours) and a fifty from Saud Shakeel (82 in 177 balls with eight fours) that powered Pakistan to 556/10.
Jack Leach (3/160) was the choose of the bowlers for England. Brydon Carse and Gus Atkinson additionally took two wickets every. Chris Woakes, Joe Root and Shoaib Bashir additionally obtained one every.
Within the first innings, England was helped by quickfire fifties from Zak Crawley (78 in 85 balls, with 13 fours) and Ben Duckett (84 in 75 balls, with 11 fours). Nonetheless, it was a humungous partnership of 454 runs between Joe Root (262 in 375 balls, with 17 fours) and Harry Brook (317 in 322 balls, with 29 fours and three sixes) that helped England exceed Pakistan’s tally simply.
England declared their innings 823/7 in 150 overs after taking a lead of 277 runs.
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